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Blow ye the Tru mpet in Zion, sound an alarm in my holy mountain. Joe12: 1.
The Lord God sh all blow the Trumpet, and go with whirlwinds. Zech. 9: 14.
All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he
li fteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a Trumpet, hear ye.
Isa. 18: 3.
And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a Trumpet, and they shall
gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven t o the
other. Mat. 21: 31.
So will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they
have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. Eze. 34: 12. , Ter. 32: 39.
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Though human hearts and looks deceive,
I close to Jesus press,
And know that I am ever safe,
Clothed in his righteousness.
I'll trust him ever, he is true,
And evermore will keep;
Though storms of persecution rise,
The Lord doth know his sheep.
Dora B. Riggs.
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The Last Days. If f
T HE words selected for the heading
of this chapter are often employed
by writers both of the Old and
the New Testament to designate
the present dispensation. In this chapter
we desire to call the special attention of
the reader to all the texts in which it is
thus applied, and to prove by the contexts
that the inspired authors spoke of the
current dispensation.
Jacob is the first of the Old Testament
saints to employ this expression. Upon
his deathbed he called his sons around
him, saying, " Gather yourselves together,
that I may tell you that which shall befall
you in the last days."- Gen. 49: 1.
The burden of his prophecy is that
which he uttered concerning Judah:
" Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren
shall praise: thy hand shall be in the
neck of thine enemies; thy father's
children shall bow down before thee.
Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey,
my son, thou art gone up: he stooped
down, he crouched as a lion, and as an
old lion; who shall rouse him up? The
scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor
a lawgiver from between his feet, until
Shiloh come; and unto him - shall the
gathering of the people be,"- Ver. 8- bo.
The main feature of the above prophecy
is the coming of Shiloh ( rest- giver), a
term used to signify the Savior; and the
adoration of Judah, which in the Christian
dispensation is fulfilled in the worshiping
of Jesus of Nazareth, who sprang from
the tribe that descended from him.
He also predicted a continuous line of
rulers in the seed of Judah, which was
fulfilled from David to Christ. Justin
Martyr, a writer of the second century,
tells us that Herod was the first foreign
prince who swayed the scepter in Judah,
and it was during his reign that our
Savior was born. " Dialogue with Trypho,"
Chap. LII.
Jacob doubtless uttered this prophecy
only to give a sign unto the chosen nation
that when they should see a foreign ruler
seize the scepter they should know that
the time had arrived for the Christ to
make his appearance. So it seems that
every feature of Jacob's prophecy pointed
to the coming of Christ and what should
take place in the Christian era. Yet he
said he was telling them " that which
should befall them in the last days."
Isaiah is the next to use the expression
" last days." He says: " And it shall
come to pass in the last days, that the
mountain of the Lord's house shall be
established in the top of the mountains,
and shall be exalted above the hills; and all
nations shall flow unto it. And many
people shall go and say, Come ye, and
let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
to the house of the God of Jacob; and be
will teach us of his ways, and we will
walk in his paths; for out of Zion shall
go forth the law, and the word of the
Lord from Jerusalem. And he shall
judge among the nations, and shall
rebuke many people: and they shall beat
their swords into plowshares, and their
spears into pruning- hooks: nation shall
not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more. 0
house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk
in the light of the Lord."- Isa. 2: 2- 5.
Here we have a sublime description of
the ushering in of the Christian dispensa-tion,
and the present peaceful reign of
the Messiah in the hearts of the redeemed.
The new covenant has actually been
given at Mount Zion, and the word of the
Lord is going forth, which began at
Jerusalem. Luke 24: 47. But all this the
prophet said was to come to pass in the
last days. So it is very evident that he
also denominates the Christian era " the
last days."
Next we come to the prophecies of
Micah, who was the last of the Old
Testament prophets to use the expression
" last days." He says: " But in the last
days it shall come to pass, that the
mountain of the house of the Lord shall
be established in the top of the moun-tains,
and it shall be exalted above the
hills; and people shall flow unto it. And
many nations shall come, and say, Come,
and let us go up to the mountain of the
Lord, and to the house of the God of
Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways,
and we will walk in his paths: for the law
shall go forth of Zion, and the word of
the Lord from Jerusalem."- Micah 4: 1,2.
This prophecy is so very similar to the
one we quoted from Isaiah that we deem
it unnecessary to quote further. Like
Isaiah he speaks of the law going forth
out of Zion, and the word of the Lord
from Jerusalem, in the last days; which
we have already shown to have met its
fulfillment in the introduction of Chris-tianity.
Therefore we rank him among
the inspired writers who denominate the
Christian era " the last days."
New Testament writers also call the
Christian dispensation " the last days."
Paul says, " This know also, that in the
last days perilous times shall come. For
men shall be lovers of their own selves,
covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers,
disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
without natural affection, false accusers,
incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that
are good, traitors, heady, highminded,
lovers of pleasures more than lovers of
God; having a form of godliness, but
denying . the power thereof: from such
turn away."- 2 Tim. 3: 1- 5.
Surely the spiritual- minded can see in
the above a prophecy of the great apos-tasy.
But were there not such characters
as Paul here describes upon the earth in
his day? Yes, but the mere existence of
such wicked elements as are here de-scribed
upon the earth cannot imperil
Christianity so long as it does not become
contaminated; and such was not the peril
predicted by Paul. The burden of his
prophecy was that these wicked charac-ters
should cloak themselves with
a profession of Christianity. This even
his own words in verse 5 clearly show:
" Having a form of godliness, but denying
the power." This, to our sorrow, we see
strikingly fulfilled on every hand to- day.
But mark the fact that all this was to
take place in " the last days." Shall we
not therefore, add this to our list of
testimonies that the Christian era is " the
last days"?
But Paul speaks more clearly in another
place. " God, who at sundry times and
in divers manners spake in time past unto
the fathers by the prophets, hath in these
last days spoken unto us by his Son."-
Heb. 1: 1,2.
This statement is so clear that it would
be difficult to misunderstand it. Whatever
the signification, it is evident that " these
last days," in the text just quoted, applies
to the present dispensation.
We will here make room for Peter's
testimony. " Knowing this first, that
there shall come in the last days scoffers,
walking after their own lusts."- 2 Pet. 3: 3.
Here we have another application of
the term " last days" to the ' Christian
dispensation. If any of the Millennial
teachers are desirous of stretching this
prophecy to a future age, they refute
their theory of universal righteousness,
for Peter is speaking of an age that shall
abound with " scoffers walking after their
own lusts." The fact is, Peter is speaking
of the present age, and we add his
testimony to our list of scriptural eviden-ces
that the present dispensation is " the
last days."
We have now proved our point by six
clear scriptural proofs. It is evident that
the texts we have quoted from the Old
Testament are not applicable to the latter
part of the old: dispensation, because as
we have shown they belong to predictions
of events that have met their fulfillment
in the new dispensation. It is also very
evident that Paul in Heb. 1: 1,2, was not
speaking of the latter end of the present
dispensation: because he affirms it as an
event already completed-" God hath in
these last days spoken unto us by his
Son." With these facts before us we can
but conclude that the inspired writers
called the Christian era as a whole, " the
last days:" and I know of no sensible
interpretation of their words except that
in the dispensation in which we now live
is the last age of time. Why then do men,
in opposition to these clear statements in
God's word, look for an " age to come"?
W. G. SCHELL.
Use the Word
X WORLDLY argument based on
scientific truths cannot possibly
have the same weight that the Word
has in convincing the erring ones.
Whenever we commence to use too
much of self in an article or forget
to honor God by not using his word
to prove what we say in our testimo-nies;
the wisdom of this world being
foolishness with God, is only too true
and the foolishness of our words is
apparent to all. They lack the true
wisdom.
" Seest thou a man wise in his own
conceit? There is more hope of a
fool than of him."- Prov. 26: 12.
" Trust in the Lord with all thine
heart, and lean not unto thine own
understanding."- F'rov. 3: 5.
We are exhorted in the Word to
abide in the things, wherein we are
learned. " But continue thou in the
things which thou hast learned and
hast been assured of, knowing of
whom thou host learned them."
- 2 Tim. 3: 14.
Science never has been able to suc-cessfully
controvert these scriptural
truths, and cannot hope to supplant
the Word by any of the traditions of
men or philosophical arguments, and
we are never made sure that we are
right when we are led into trusting
to scierme to defeat Satan. If we
would win in this conflict, let us use
the two- edged sword of the Spirit.
B. F. GAY.
SattotO cation.
EFINED: SANCT FICATION, the
act of sanctifying. SANCTIFY)
to make sacred, or holy. HOLY, per-fectly.
pure.
By this definition of the word sanc-tification,
we find that to be sancti-fied,
is to be in an undefiled state
( See 2 Cor. II : 2; Eph. 5: 25- 127.) ; a
state of purity. { See Acts 15: 8, 9;
' no. 3: 3.)
" Follow peace with all men, and
holiness [ purity], without which no
man shall see the Lord."- Heb.
12: 13.
Holiness is truly , the most beauti-ful
of all the characteristics of God's
house ( church). It is possible to be
in possession of a vast amount of
love, but if it is not in full relation-ship
with God's holiness, it may soon
exist in a very corrupt state, and be
found to proceed from a source far
from the unadulterated fountain of
divine purity. Again, we may have
peace, and joy- and that very ex-tensive-
but never can we be in
possession of perfect peace, and full-ness
of joy, until we receive the
cleansing ( 1 Jno. I: 7), the purging
( Jno. 15: 2); viz., become sanctified
wholly. 1 Thess. 5: 23.
" Holiness becometh thine house,
0 Lord, forever."- Psa. 93: 5. " This
is the law of the house; Upon the top
of the mountain [ Mount Zion the
whole limit thereof round- about
shall be most holy. Behold, this is
the law of the house [ church]."-
Ezek. 43 : 12. " Whose house are
we."- Heb. 3: 6.
To- day in our land the Devil has
many, many vain forms of religion,
under a cloak of holiness. And we
are sad to say, that by the awful de-ceivableness
thereof, many precious
souls are being ensnared and are
unknowingly on the broad road to
destruction. ( See Matt. 7: 21- 23.)
And some of these, false cloaks are
so near like the genuine, that only
by the spiritual, can they be detect-ed.
At this we marvel not; for God
hath faithfully forewarned us, that
" Satan himself is transformed into an
angel of light; therefore it is no
great thing if his ministers also be
transformed as the ministers of
righteousness."- 2 Cor. II: 14, 15.
Therefore, " beloved, believe not
every spirit, but try the spirits wheth-er
they are of God; because many
false prophets are gone out into the
Jno. 4: i.
The Devil very well knows that
his grand success of sect scheming is
at an end with the true children of
God, and nearly as much so with the
honest sinner, who is making no pre-tension
of godliness. Therefore he
has the entire factory of illusiveness,
diligently engaged in the manu-facture
of FALSE holiness. And like
unto the idolatrous miser grabbing
for his coin, so do the people lay
hold of this false religion, whose in-ventor
is the Devil, and are immedi-ately
immerged in the awful soul- de-stroying
spirit of deception. We al-so,
beloved, must be diligent that " we
may be found of him in peace, with-out
spot, and blameless" ( 2 Pet. 3: 14) ,
that we be not ensnared by the
craftiness df his deceivers; for " if it
were possible, they would deceive the
very elect."- Matt. 24: 24. There-fore,
let us " try the spirits, whether
they are of God." How try them?-
By God's word. The Spirit of God
and his word agree. See 1 jno. 5: 7
In many cases of this false holi-ness
there is an abundance of spirit,
manifesting itself by wild yells, furi-ous
looks, stiffening out on the floor,
horifying groans, falling over chairs,
and many other unseemly actions,
which proceed froth individuals, who
perhaps are fighting the undefiled
plan of salvation, and whose lives
are plainly condemned and exposed
thereby. Such are some of the
particular proceedings manifested by
false holiness professors, being in-fluenced
by the false spirit, which
they received when they obtained
what they term the Holy Ghost, the
sanctifier. Therefore let us " try the
spirits."
We were permitted some time ago
to attend a few meetings run under
this false spirit ( Antichrist), after
which we obtained opportunity to
converse with the leader of the ser-vices.
We found him full of self-conceit,
" heady" ( 2 Tim. • 3: 4), and
unwilling to acknowledge the truth,
when clearly illustrated and read to
him from God's word. Having had
opportunity to testify in the said
meetings, we did so; and spoke the
truth as the dear Lord filled our
mouth, which was mostly his word.
While conversing with him, he call-ed
my attention to the fact that each
time we testified it shut off the, spirit
( which controlled them). Well, my
soul said amen. And this text ran
through our mind like a flash " Ye
are of God, little children, and have
overcome them; because greater is
he that is in you, than he that is in
the world."--- I Jno. 4: 4. Praise God!
So it is, dearly beloved, as the apos-tle
has here represent, If we live
true to God, and obey him, our testi-mony
or his blessed word faithfully
declared, backed up by the mighty
power of the abiding Comforter, will
quell every Antichrist spirit and
bring you forth more than conqueror.
A. J. ELLISON.
Faith and Trust,
66e) 6 HEN said Daniel unto the cr king, 0 king, live forever.
My God hafts sent his angel, and
hath shut the lions' mouths, that
they have not hurt me: forasmuch
as before him innocency was found
in me; and also before thee, 0 king,
have I done no hurt."- Dan. 6: 21,22.
On, how beautifully this shows
forth the faith and trust Daniel had
in the God of heaven! He knew
very well the decree that the king
had established, and that if he dis-obeyed
he should be cast into a den
of lions. But with perfect faith and
trust in God and innocent before
God and man, he feared not what man
could do unto him. God himself
sent his angel and stayed the lions'
mouths and he received no harm.
Dear ones in Christ, the Devil is
going up and down the earth to- day
as a roaring lion seeking whom he
may devour ( I Pet. 5: 8), teaching
for doctrine the commandments of
men. I pray that God will waken
us up to a deeper faith and trust in
him and his word. Like faithful
Daniel, may we have our windows
open toward Jerusalem and examine
our hearts before him, that through
perfect submission to his word and
will we may be found innocent be-fore
God and man of having accept-ed
any doctrine contrary to that we
have received and wherein we stand;
namely, the doctrine of our Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ.
" And what shall I more say? for
the time would fail me to tell • of
Gideon, and of Barak, and of Sam-son,
and of Jephthae; of David also,
and Samuel, and of the prophets:
who through faith subdued king-doms,
wrought righteousness, ob-tained
promises, stopped the mouths
of lions, quenched the violence of
fire, escaped the edge of the sword,
out of weakness were made strong,
waxed valiant in fight, turned to
flight the armies of the aliens."-
Heb. i i: 32- 34.
Dear saints of God; do we fully
understand what sweeping victory
we can have over the enemy and his
ministers who are teaching that
Christ has not set up his kingdom
yet, and that at the judgment day
the wicked are to be cast into hell
and be burned up at once, that they
will not be tormented forever? And
the precious word of God is being
twisted in many other ways. But
praise be to him who has brought
us out of darkness into his marvel-ous
light! In his word he tells us
that in the last days perilous times
shall come. 2 Tint. 3: 1. Surely as
we look around us and meditate
upon these things, we can see of a
truth these are perilous times. But
what a blessing and comfort to know
that faith and trust in God with
decision will carry us safely through!
And we can say with Paul, " For I
am now ready to be offered, and the
time of my departure is at hand. I
have fought a good fight, I have
finished my course, I have kept the
faith."- 2 Tim. 4: 6 7.
" So shall they fear the name of
the Lord from the west, and his
glory from the rising of the sun.
When the enemy shall come in like
a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall
lift up a standard against him."
E. W. GRI: ELEV.
TRUSTING IN JESUS.
I close my eyes to Satan's snares,
I see but Christ alone;
What need I care for sneering foes,
Since he is all my own. -
My raptured soul is full of song,
My night has passed away;
For Jesus is the glorious Light,
Along this pilgrim way.
I walk by faith, and not by sight,
I live because he died;
He leads me by his own right hand,
The blessed Crucified.
Dark winter days cannot bring gloom,
Sweet Spring doth reign within,
For all things now are fair and pure,
Since I am saved from sin.
OUTSIDE WORK.
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caught in the roof near the pipe and:-
we had no chance to save it.
So the Lord's share and a great
deal more got burned, and we had
no Place to lay our heads, with five .
small children, one a babe of five
months old. It no more than served
us right. It was a great loss of earth-ly
things but a gain of heavenly, as
we count all things Work together
for good to them that love the Lord;
So we have that promise. The dear
Lord is wonderfully supplying our
needs and we are very thankful to
all who are so kindly aiding us.
Our two little ones had hard colds
at the time. One had the croup a
night or two before the fire, so We
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need of yet. Pray that the Lord a
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and make it known to
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will send Gospel workers
there are a good many zuixtous to
hear the true gospel preached.
Let every one take \ Yarning that
reads this and never hold 1): tick the
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perishing souls which could be sav,
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brother and sister. trusting
MR, AND MRS. I). I I.
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ho had been recently saved sent in
S testimony. and after waiting a
w weeks and did not see his writ-gs
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tter, stating that he had sent in his
stimony and we would not publish
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d enough of the TRUMPET. We
rote him a very kind letter telling
m that the TRUMPET had but four
ges and was ' only issued once a
eek, and asked him what he- would
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ough testimonies to last several
eks, if no more were sent in, and
ough articles on hands, without
ing any testimonies; enough news
orn the field to fill the whole paper;
number of obituaries, poetry, re-ests,
etc. He wrote back asking
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and remarks, and said he
d never thought of these things
d in what a peculiar situation the
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THURSDAY. APR. 22, 1897.
• Calls for Meetings.
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Some of God's true servants are desired
to come here and hold meeting in May.
Address Mrs. L. J. Sedwick, Kittanning,
Pa.
Cannot some of God's true preachets
come here? It is sixty- two miles south of
Paducah, Ky. Any one who feels led in
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this direction, address me at Hamlin, Ky.
. Maston Thomas.
Meetings.
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An assembly meeting beginning May
27 and lasting ten days, will be held on
the Floating Bethel, one square west of
the Sixth St. Bridge, Allegheny City, Pa,
Address G. T. Clayton, in care of " Float-ing
Bethel."
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May 14- 23. Let all the saints of
the Dominion come. Ordinance and
baptizing on the 23d. For needed infor-mation
write Levi Ecker, Sherlc- ston, Ont.
JOonht. n A. and Alice J. Dillon, Welland,
There will be a tabernacle meeting
at Howard City, Mich., commencing May
6. Bro. Win. Warren is expected to help
In the meeting. Let all the dear saints of
Shall We Enlarge the Trumpet?
NTIL five years ago the TRUMP-
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Then the Lord moved upon us to
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Letters to that effect are
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of thankfulness. Among the number
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has been enough property and money
lost through disobedience of those
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during the last five years, to spread
the pure gospel a hundredfold more,
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brethren who will stand for the truth
even unto the death. May God bless
and reward them abundantly with
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Take Warning.
HARBOR SPRIls GS,
EMMET Co., MICH.
DEAR TRUMPET READERS: As we
purpose in our hearts, so let us give
willingly, not grudgingly but of a
ready mind; for God loveth a cheer-ful
giver. I write this to warn others;
for we have met with a great loss.
Our house burned and about half
the household goods, and all our
vegetables and roots and about half
of our canned fruit, and the roots
we had for feed for our stock. As
we did not have much feed, we had
raised quite a good many roots, and
the Lord bid us to sell some and use
the means for the Lord. When we
could not find ready sale for them
and knew we would need all our-selves
and more too, the Devil tried
o satisfy our minds and make us
believe that as we had helped some,
it would do.
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was going to happen. At first things
froze some, and then stopped. So
we felt safe, but not right. But
remember, when we can say peace
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of the Lord, and we hope it will be so
with every one who reads this, al-though
some may say, " Our stoves are
safe; there is no danger of fire." I
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ANOTHER LETTER FROM INDIA.,
CALCUTTA, INDIA, March 17.
MY DEARLY BELOVED BROTHER:
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were something as follows: .1 Ii.
was very much needed to be H ied in
the work of the I., ord, and tin.. Lord
moved upon a brother ouite a dis-tance
from that place to
his best horses as a donation.
told his , wife about it, and told w • .11
one the Lord had made known
he should give. She \ would Ii( lt CI) -
sent to part with that one, as it was
their favorite. He said it was that
one or none. However. the horse
was not sent. In a few days it died:
The loss of this one seene. al to be
an excuse for not giving another
from about half a dozen that remain-ed.
Soon another one died, and it
was not long until the last one was
gone. He procured a span of mules.
thinking they would be in no danger,
but they soon met the same fate.
Next two yoke of oxen were obtained,
but seeing they would soon go the
same way if he kept them, he disposed -
of them. He became involved in
debt, both he and wife backslid, and
they felt the hand of the Lord- wasa-gainst
them. We learn that they
have since turned unto the Lord
with repenting hearts and determin-ed
to walk in the ways of his truth,
and are now enjoying his blessings.
These instances are only among
thousands of a similar nature, where -
disobedience has brought trouble to
both soul and body and much finan-cmioanle
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Part from them and worldly posses-sions
suddenly go beyond their grasp,
because the Lord did not get his
share to be used for the rescue of'
Souls. -
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THE GOSPEL TRUMPET.
GOSPEL HEALING HOME.
things. 0, what a good thing it
would be if all our boys could
be taught to trust in the Lord
in the same way!
And if I go on adding instances of
the Lord's goodness and mercy,
which are far too many to count,
space would not allow me to write
about half of them; but I will speak
of one more instance where the
Spirit is working in a boy's mind in
our barracks. This boy ( rather a
young man) came to see the truth
about perfection and faith healing,
and believed them, but some of his
friends became displeased with him
for that. But he is holding the
truth in spite of the strong opposi-tions
of his friends, and he is trust-ing
in the Lord and in the Lord
alone. Pray that he may be com-forted
and strengthened of the Lord
to stand against the attacks of them
alt who oppose the stronger light.
Lastly, I must thank you very,
very much for all the valuable books
and tracts that you have sent. They
have been an effective means of
helping the cause of truth as it is in
Jesus. I cannot finish thanking You
for that, and eternity can alone re-veal
the good fruits that they all will
bear. I have been distributing them
far and wi, de and sowing among
many waters, and I am ' sure they
will bring forth much fruit unto the
Lord. Keep on praying for us all,
dear brother, for the work that the
Lord gave us to do. Pray also that
much good may come out of a tour
we are intending to undertake in the
neighboring districts among - the
Christians, to preach the new truths
that are neglected everywhere. I
mean, sanctification, faith healing,
etc. May God bless you all. With
much holy love, I am your younger
brother, A. D. KHAN.
OAKLAND, CAL., Mar. 27.
DEAR SAINTS OF GOD: I have just
returned from a trip south, of nearly
four weeks, during which time l have
endeavored to cry aloud and spare
not, Visited the cities of Fresno,
Los Angeles, and San Diego. Spent
but a few days in Fresno, but God
was with us. Bro. Geo. L. Cole and
company were there for several
months during the winter. Their
labors in pracdcal missionary work
have been owned and blessed of God.
M lily sorrowing hearts have been
comforted and brought into a deeper
experience in Christ. Some who
knew not God have been saved, and
afii.' cted and suffering ones have
been healed.
We announced a holiness and divine
healing meeting for Sunday, Mar. 7,
which was well attended. Some of
the saints were in from Easton and
other country places. The day was
one of refreshing from the presence
of the Lord in full gospel grace.
Fresno and vicinity is a promising
field. There has been come faithful
sowing of gospel seed, some of which
has grown and been already harvest-ed,
while some is yet in much need
of careful and wise watering, and
there is also yet great need of much
more faithful sowing. What is true
with regard to this city and vicinity
is practically true in many other
fields.
My time was limited, and I left for
Los Angeles Mar. 8. Met with some
of the brethren in the mission meet-ing
Mar. 9. Made arrangements for
a series of meetings in that city for
the following week, and on the loth,
went on to San Diego. Spent a
week in that city in dealing out the
bread of life to many hungry souls.
It was very encouraging and inspir-ing
to see the people come with
listening ears and open hearts. The
Lord confirmed his word in many re-spects,
and I believe the pure truth
has gained confidence in many hearts,
that will result in helping build up
the cause of Christ.
I must testify to the healing of my
voice during my stay at San Diego.
Having been exposed to getting wet
and also being over heated on one
and goodness of the Lord upon us,
and loving and unmistakable has
been his preser c:.‘ with us of late.
I think I have written to you in my
last that I left Calcutta for a time
and went to Mymensingh, a district
in East Bengal, where I first heard
the " wonderful word of life" and
was led to see my Jesus as my Christ
and king. There the Lord's good-ness
followed me and after conver-sation
and reading together of your
" Secret of Salvation" and the
" Divine Healing," one friend came
to believe in divine healing as set
forth in the scriptures, and many
became eager to know more about
the truth. Many there were who
heard it for the first time, that " faith
healing" was possible even in these
days. Many were astonished and
praised the Lord. There was an in-valid
who eagerly listened to the
truth, and asked for a copy of your
" Divine Healing," which I gave him,
and he began to read the book.
May the Lord bless him in his study.
The friend who came to believe in
divine healing is the one whose in-fluence
and teaching and prayer
brought me to the feet of my Savior
three years ago. She is a converted
Jewess, a lady missionary from Aus-tralia,
and indeed a child of God
who, it can be said with truthfulness,
lives for her Master's glory: and hers
is a truly consecrated life, which
helped me very much in my Chris-tian
life and growth. She, very soon
after, also saw that tea was not ne-cessary,
besides it was not good to
the system; and no sooner did she
see that, than she gave it up alto-gether,
for the Lord's sake and her
body's sake, which is a temple of the
Lord. She, first of all, having been
convinced that it was a stimulant,
said at once that the Lord's people
do not need any stimulants; so she
gave it up. Praise the Lord!
Again, another, a brother who was
adicted to the filthy habit of smok-ing,
gave it up when I spoke to him
about it and explained the evil
thereof; and the same also has been
a hard tea- drinker, who could not
do without tea, but has now given
up a great deal and is thinking of
giving it up altogether; while there
is another who is seriously thinking
about the question. May the Lord
bless them both abundantly in their
souls, and give them strength to
fight out the evil habit.
Perhaps you remember I wrote to
you to pray for a Mahomedan coa-
- vert who was among his ewn people
and was under manifold temptations.
A severe trial was brought forward
and they of his own flesh and blood
tried hard to env, ap him, but the Naza-rene
conq uered at last. After pass-ing
through the refiner's fire of
hardship and temptation untold, and
suffering most painfully and igno-miniously
( to the eye of the world)
for a season of nearly six months, he
came out again in our midst to glo-rify
the Lord. He is very happy
now in the Lord and has consecrated
his life for the Lord's work. Praise
the Lord for having answered our
united prayers ( for all this time I
was incessantly praying for him—
almost every day) " and this is the con-fidence
that we have in . him, that, if
we ask anything according to his
will, he heareth us." Oh, what a
loving and happy confidence?
One day a boy in the house in
which I was living while at Mymen-singh,
had a bad pain and was
hindered from going to school, and
as he was agonizing in pain I asked
him if he believed in the power of
the Lord to heal him, and explained
to him more about it; and immedi-ately
he was led to pray for his pain,
and in a few minutes the pain was
all gone and he could sleep, and in
the afternoon walk as usual. Two
or three days later he got diarrhea
again. I asked him to go to the
same good physician who healed
him before, and he did so: but this
time he was shown the wicked
thing that he had done which caused
the trouble, and he repented and the
Lord healed him. His faith has
been much stronger and he got to
PHILADELPHIA, PA., Apr. 14.
DEAR BRETHREN: What we fed
God wants here is a company of
workers to take up this work which
has been started here, or to take our
tabernacle, which will otherwise lie
die. If a company could come here
for the sernmer or a part of it at
east, we could fill other calls,
which we have or they could fi I
these calls, as God may direct.
A man and wife would be
suited for the work. May God
have his way. Your brother in
Jesus, B. F. WEIKEL,
505 W. Lehigh Aye,
Philadelphia, Pa.
VENANGO, PA., Apr. 15..
DEARLY BELOVED: We are happy
to say that we are well and saved,
and growing in grace and in the
knowledge of our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ. On our way here we
stopped a few days w ith the church
at Monterey. Then came to Utica,
where we held meeting over three
Sundays. Bro. and Sister Billig
came over and were with us a few
days. At this place a few are taking
their stand on the whole truth as
God gives them light. We shall
preach there by appointment until
the work is established. We have
held a few meetings with the little
church at Blystone. I shall be out
of the work ( mainly) for a few
months, on account of building a
house for my family. I desire to be
in the work again as soon as possible.
There are so many calls. Now if
any brethren in Pennsylvania who
are carpenters feel led to help me in
this matter, I will pay your way
here, and it will help me to get in
the Lord's harvest field sooner.
If any feel so led, please write me
at once. Address Venango, Craw-fordCo.,
Pa. Your saved brother,
H. M. RIGGLE.
know the Lord better by these ' occasion, my voice by constant use
daily and nightly, became affected
and at one meeting was nearly gone.
One person taunted me with the say-ing,
" Physician, heal thyself." I had
been preaching healing to others, now
practice it. At the close of the
evening meeting a number were
anointed for healing. After all were
done, I received the anointing for
myself. At once I felt the divine
touch in my throat. My voice speed-ily
returned and I was enabled to go
to Los Angeles and preach with a
loud voice to large congregations,
and was distinctly heard by all.
There the interest was good and in-creasing
throughout the entire series
of meetings. God did very signally
own and honor his blessed word.
There were many very deep and
thorough consecrations in both these
cities. Many who had heard but
little of this way were convinced of
the power and will of God, and by a
definite act of faith committed their
souls and bodies to God for his
saving, cleansing, and healing grace
and to walk in all the light of his
word as it shines upon them. At
Los Angeles we had one all night
of prayer, which was a gracious up-lift
to those present. While at San
Diego I also visited the little church
at Otay, twelve miles south of this
city, for one meeting.
During the entire trip I had the
blessed consciousness that God was
directing every step, and through the
power of the Holy Spirit the churches
were confirmed and strengthened.
He also greatly blessed and strength-ened
my dear wife in her increased
duties at home during my absence,
all for which we do humbly thank
God and take courage. Our hearts
are yearning for an increase of use-fulness
to the glory of God and suffer-ing
humanity. The dear Lord is
measurably giving us an outlet and
access to the hearts of many, but we
long for more, and we pray that we
may all as coworkers speedily carry
the blessings of the full gospel to
the dying world. The work in this
vicinity is gradually upon the increase.
Pray for us. We are as ever your
brother and sister set for the defense
of the gospel,
J. We AND J. BYERS.
LOVES LAKE, LA., Apr. 7.
DEARLY BELOVED TRUMPET READ-ERS:
This morning finds us sweetly
saved from all sin. Glory to the
blessed Lamb of God that taketh
away the sin of the world! We
closed meeting here last night with
victory on the Lord's side. Praise
his dear name! Two followed the
Lord yesterday in baptism and two
Lord's day before last. There were
many who seemed to be much con-victed
of their sins. We left some
poor sinners yesterday weeping • and
asking our prayers. God bless and
save them. We start south to- day
for Lena Station, La. Brethren,
pray for the dear ones in these parts
and for us that we may do our duty
in all things. All wishing to address
me can address me at Lena Station,
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My Christ— he is the Heaven of heavens,
My Christ— what shall I call?
My Christ is first, my Christ is last;
My Christ is all in all.
MRS. M. L. ROBINSON.
much more those members of the
body which seem to be more feeble
are necessary." " But much more
necessary are those members of the
body which are thought to be more
feeble."— Wilson's translation. " And
those members of the body, which
we think to be less honorable, upon
these we bestow more abundant
honor; and our uncomely parts
have more abundant comeliness."
I Cor. 12: 18, 21- 23.
More honor is put on the un-comely,
for they have need. Our
comely parts have no need. So " God
bath tempered the body together,
having given more abundant honor
to that part which lacked."— Ver. 24,
Beloved, dust thou see why God did
this? Ver. 25 tells—" that the members
should have the same care one for
another." ( Emphatic Diaglott, " the
members may be concerned the same
on behalf of each other.")
There is no difference in Christ
Jesus. One is not above another.
God accepts no man's person. Neither
can we. Fervent love one to another
covereth the multitude of sins and
fulfills the royal law. This is a deep
thrill of love that exists • only in his
body, the Church; for it is the love
of • the Spirit. " And whether one
member suffer all the members suffer
with it; or one member be honored,
all the members rejoice with it."—
Cor. 12: 2- 6. How beautifully and
perfectly the Father hath bound our
hearts together with cords of love!
Now concerning gifts and the
gift, God hath said, " As every man
hath received the gifts, even so min-ister
the same one to another, as
as good stewards of the manifold
grace of God."--- t Pet. 4: Io. We infer
from this that the Father hath given
us abundant grace to resist every as-sault
of the enemy of all souls.
Satan has many strongholds, such
as pride, highmindedness, and other
principalities and powers. From these
summits he with many other rulers
of the darkness of this world has set
himself in array and has already
succeeded in establishing his king-dom
in many hearts, but better
things are said of you who have re-ceived
of God's grace. " For if by
one man's offense death reigned by
one, much more they which receive
abundance of grace and of the gift
of righteousness shall reign in life by
one, Jesus Christ."— Rom. 5: 17.
Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ
and of his fullness have all we re-ceived.
See Jno. 1: 16, 17. Grace
reigns through righteousness by him.
Read Rom. 5: 21.
Having then grace and the gifts
by grace, we reign in this life by
esus Christ. Hence it is on the
very summit of God's love that grace
abounds. Who can receive this say-ing
into their hearts? For millions
of souls are now speedily going on to
judgment with the persuasion that
they must commit sin and continue
in sin that grace may abound, whose
end is according to their works.
However, there are some honest
hearts here and there who have be-lieved
this doctrine, not knowing the
truth; but for this cause shall they
obtain mercy when they do hear the
truth, if they will receive it into their
hearts.
Where sin reigns, it reigns unto
death; for " the wages of sin is
death." " Follow peace with all men,
and holiness, without which no man
shall see the Lord; looking diligent-ly
lest any man fail of the grace of
God; lest any root of bitterness
springing up trouble you and thereby, many be defiled."— Heb. 12: 14, IS.
Sin only reigns when the grace of
God fails. To commit sin is to be
carnally minded and to be carnally
minded is death. Rom. 8: 6.
In righteousness doth He ( the
Faithful and True, Revomm) judge
and make war, " And they that are
with him are called, and chosen, and
faithful."— Rev. 17: 14•
look to be humbled by sSin
w
n'eordoyyiienelodt
to any foe, but for grace from the
Father who " always causeth us to
triumph in Christ, and maketh man-ifest
the savor of his knowledge by
us in every place." H. E. ROGERS.
replied am just here in the
strength of the Lord; that is all."
He said, " It is a good thing to be
here in his strength." So when the
meeting began and the saints, were
testifying, I arose and testified to
the healing power of God, according
to Jas. 5 and Mark 16, and stated
that I was healed. But soon Satan
tempted me, and said, " You are not
healed. You have told a story." I
began to feel worse and worse, till I
thought I would sink to the floor.
But I was impressed that it was only
a trick of the Devil, and I went to
praying to God about it, and. got
the victory in a short time and never
felt better in my life. I continued to
gain strength and went the next night
to meeting and testified again to the
healing power of God. I also went
to meeting every night during the
week, and can truly say I have not
had the least touch of the grippe in
my body since. I was also healed of
the other afflictions that affected me
at that time. To God be all the
glory and praise. I have taken the
Lord for my physician for twelve
years, and would not exchange him
for all earthly physicians combined.
That is not the first time he has
raised me from my bed instanta-neously,
when I was very sick, with-out
a drop of medicine. Likewise
he has healed the children many
times. Bless his name! I am glad
to- day finds me saved, rejoicing in
a Savior's love, trusting him for all
things; and can say with the poet,
" Where he leads me, I will follow;"
being fully determined to go all the
way with Jesus. I am sanctified to
do his will.
My Christ— he is the Lord of lords,
He is the Ki ig of kings;
He is the Son a righteousness,
With healing in his wings.
My Christ— he is the tree of life,
Which in God, s garden grows,
Whose fruits do feed, whose leaves do heal;
My Christ is Sharon's rose.
Set Thy Rouse in Order.
Y love for God, his truth,
and all the saints compels me
to mention a few things that come
to my notice along the line of my
work, which things both God and
his children hate, but if spoken of
may stir the minds and souls of all
those who have not as yet " set their
house in order."
To my astonishment, I have
nessed in the houses of a few who
claim to be saints in • the blessed
" evening light," great irregularity in
time of family worship and cottage
meetings. 1 have often been grieved
in my soul to see the small children
of the saints of God, sitting upon
their chairs, while their father,
mother, and the preacher are on
their knees in family devotion.
Brethren, this is not " bringing up
the child in the way he should go,"
neither is it " setting your house in
order."
Again, I have been present when
only part of the family would meet
in the sitting- room for worship.
The boys and hired hand would be
out in the barn feeding the stock.
and a boarder in the kitchen, while
a few were in the room worshiping
God. Brethren, we cannot expect
the blessings of God upon our souls
and allow such things in our house.
God commands us to rule our own
house and to have our children in
subjection. Not only should your
children obey the rules of your
house, but strangers also. There-fore,
in the name of Jesus, command
and demand all in your house who
eat at your table and sleep under.
your roof, to meet with you in wor-ship
and also kneel down while you
Dray. Brethren, respecting family
worship, no one shall make their
home with us who refuses to abide by I
the above rules.
Again, I have known the people i
of God to have cottage prayer- meet-ing
and the saints take, one room in
the house whine their children wouldlt
another, , and while the people!
Divine Healing.
Who Will Be Healed?
T will be those who come to
the Lord according to his word.
Those who come in faith, " doubting
nothing." They may come having
faith themselves, or, if not capable of
exercising faith, may be brought by
others to the Lord by faith. If a
person is capable of exercising faith,
it is required of him. To the woman
who touched his garment, Jesus said,
" Thy faith hath made thee whole."
To the woman of Canaan he said:
" 0 woman, great is thy faith: be it
unto thee even as thou wilt." The
nobleman whose child was dying
" believed the word that Jesus had
spoken unto him and went his way,"
and the child was healed. Some
friends brought a man sick of palsy
who was no doubt unable to exercise
faith, " and Jesus seeing their faith
said unto the sick of the palsy; Son,
be of good cheer, thy sins be for-given
thee." " Arise and walk."
Dear afflicted ones, you have the
same privilege of coming to him and
being healed. Will you come? " I
would," says one, " but do not know
hoietcrcome." You must come in
faith, as did the people of olden
times, just believing his word, as did
the nobleman. And like the Syro-phenician
woman ( Matt. 15), do not
stop until F. it is done. It takes no
more faith now to be healed than it
did in those times.
Chronic Dyspepsia Healed -
VISALIA, CAL.
I praise the dear Lord for his
goodness and mercy in calling me
out of darkness into the marvelous
light of God. Last July I met with
some of God's true children for the
first time, attended their meetings,
and soon got under conviction.
But not realizing that my Savior
was ready to forgive as soon as I
had repented of my sins, I did not
receive my pardon until some time
later. In September I was blessed
with healing faith, and soon after,
wonderfully healed of an old chronic
case of dyspepsia, for which I praise
God every day. Bless his holy
name! Knowing that - the Lord re-quired
us to go on to perfection, I
began to consecrate for the second
work of grace, and was wholly sancti-fied
Nov. 24, 1896. Since then my
father, mother, two sisters, two bro-thers,
and an uncle have received
full salvation and were all bam iz' d
at one time. We have all t hrow n
medicine aside and taken the blessed
Lord for our physician and ° we find
him ever ready to heal and to bless,
when we ask in faith believing. I
know that my Redeemer liveth al d
is just the same yesterday, to day,
and forever. Please pray for us
that we may do the whole ti ill of
God. KATE MCGINNIS.
God Manifests His Power.
I believe I can glorify God by
ght ing a little of my experience in
regard to the healing of my body
a short time ago. I was quite sick,
affected in different ways, but
especially with the grippe. Had
been confined to my bed for some
days, not able to be up. On Sunday
evening after my son had returned
from holiness meeting and also had
got saved at the meeting that morn-ing,
I felt the Spirit of God leading
me to get up and go to the meeting.
I knew my condition, - knew I was
very weak. So I took it to the Lord
in prayer. I said, " Lord, if you want
me to go, give me courage and
strength." I still waited before the
Lord to find I had courage and
faith, but my strength was very
much limited. Still I could not get
rid of the impression to go. So I
arose and dressed myself and started
in the name of the Lord. He
enabled me to get there, but I felt
very weak. When I arrived, the
minister, knowing that I had been
sick, asked me how I was feeling.
of God were worshiping, the chil-dren
made sport and fun among
themselves. This also is an abomi-nation
in the sight of God, and you
cannot allow such and keep clear in
your souls. Alas! God will hold you
responsible in the day of judgment
for not doing your duty. Letting
things go on loosely is nothing less
than " walking disorderly," and God
commands us to withdraw from such.
Some who profess salvation in
Jesus, are by their means paying
their children's way to hell, while
they and God's ministers are pray-ing
for their salvation. For example,
about ten years ago a sister came to
me in tears asking me to earnestly
pray for her two boys. But I soon
learned through another sister that
she had the previous night given
each of them twenty- five cents to
pay their way at a dance. It is use-less
to pray for your dear children
while you indulge them in worldly
pleasure.
Fathers and mothers have been
known to spend money to push their
children out into society that they
might become popular, and have
neglected the cause of God and the
spreading of gospel truth. My dear
ones, " What you sow, that ye shall
reap." My motto is, Isa. 58: 1. Your
brother for the gospel,
SAMUEL L. SPECK.
Can We Live Without Sin?
CAN testify that I am saved and
A. serving the Lord in holiness and
righteousness. Some say that God
only is holy. Rev. 15: 14. That is so;
but God being in us, and he being
holy makes us holy; hence he says,
" Be ye holy; for I am holy."— t Pet.
1: 16. And in Heb. 12: 14 it says,
" Holiness, without which no man
shall see the Lord." Then we must
be holy if we get to heaven.
Some say that we cannot live free
from sin. But let us read the precious
words from the Bible: " And these
things I write unto you, that ye sin
not".— t John 1: 7. And, " If we walk
in the light as he is in the light, we
have fellowship one with another,
and the blood of Jesus cleanseth us
from all sin." Well, - then there is
none left, and the Word says, " He
that saith he abideth in him ought
himself also so to walk, even as he
walked."— t Jno. 2: 6.
John said, " Beloved, now are we
the sons of God; and it doth not yet
appear what we shall be, but we
know that when he shall appear e
shall be like him: for we shall see
him as he is. And every man that
hath this hope in him purifieth him-self,
even as he is pure."-- t Jno. 3: 2,3.
If we then be as pure as he is, we
will be without sin. Now you see
that he declares that we shall be like
him, but he does not stop here: " And
ye know that he was manifested to
take away our sins, and in him is no
sin."
Some holiness fighters say, " Who
can say, I have made my heart clean,
I am pure from ryn sin?"— Prov. 20: 0.
Certainly, no mans can say he has
made his own heart clean, for it takes
the blood of Jesus to cleanse our
hearts from all sin. Bless the Lord!
his Word is so plain. Hence he says
in Jno. 3: 6, " Whosoever abideth in
him sinneth not. Little children, let
no man deceive you: he that doeth
righteousness is righteous even as he
is righteous. He that committeth
sin is of the Devil; for the Devil sin-teeth
from the beginning; For this
purpose was the Son of God man-ifested,
that he might destroy the
works of the Devil." Bless the Lord
forever and ever!
" Whosoever is born of God cloth
not commit sin." This does not
sound like it a man says he is with-out
sin, he is a liar and the truth is
not in him, as many would like to
have it. Turn to Jno. 4: 17. He
says, " Herein is our love made
perfect, that we may have boldness
the day of judgment; because as
he is, so are we in this world. Not
only in the world to come, but in
his present world. Jesus said to the
min at the pool, Go, and sin no
more."— Jno. 5: 14. And in Inv. 8: 11
Jesus said to the woman, " Go, and
sin no more."
Dear ones, " Awake to righteous-ness,
and sin not."— I Cor. 15: 34.
Now, why not live free from sin?
Surely the Lord's grace is sufficient
to keep us free from sin. Some
say that our body commits sin.
But turn to I Thess. 5: 23. There we
read that our body is preserved
blameless; therefore we cannot com-mit
sin. Hence Paul says, " Knowing
this that our old man is crucified
with him, that the body of sin might
be destroyed, that henceforth we
should not serve sin." He says that
we are made free from sin. Rom 6:
22. We are shown in the word of
God that we must not commit sin, and
by the help of God let us live a godly
life, that we may gain heaven.
PORTER LONG.
Grace and Gifts.
6
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UT unto every one of us is
given grace according to the
measure of the gift of Christ.
Wherefore he saith, When he ascend-ed
up on high, he led captivity cap-tive,
and gave gifts unto men."— Eph.
4: 7,8.
In that he saith he led captivity.
captive and gave gifts unto men, he
desires men's hearts and entire
service first of all, and deliver-ance
from mammon servitude; then
he giveth gifts unto men. Not men
that are carnal, but spiritual; for gifts
being of the spirit are " spiritual."
Then one will say, " Cannot one,
spiritual, receive all the gifts of the
Spirit?" The Word does not say so.
" For the body is not one member,
but many."-- I Cor. 12: 14 If the foot
could perform the work of every
part of the body, the foot could say
to the ear, the eye, or the hand, I
have no need of thee. " But the man-ifestation
of the Spirit is given to
every man to profit withal. For to one
is given by the Spirit the word of
wisdom; to another the word of
knowledge by the same Spirit; to an-other
faith by the same Spirit; to an-other
the gifts of healing by the
same Spirit; to another the working
of miracles; to another prophecy; to
another discerning of spirits; to an-other
divers kinds of ton gues; to an-other
the interpretation of tongues:
but all these worketh that one and
the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every
man severally as he will."--- t Cor. 12:
8- 11.
While prophecies shall fail and
tongues shall cease, and knowledge
shall vanish away, yet the church is
edified in these things. To this end
did Paul exhort the brethren to fol-low
after charity ( have love one to
another) and desire spiritual gifts.
Cor. 14: x. Furthermore, " seek that
ye may excel to the edifying of the
church," which is the body of Christ;
for, " we being many are one body
in Christ, and every one members one
of another. Having then gifts dif-fering
according to the grace that is
given to us,.... let us prophesy ac-cording
to the pro p ortion of faith."
— Rom. 12: 5,6.
" If any man speak let him speak as
the oracles of God ; if any man minister
let him do it as of the ability which
God giveth: that God in all things
maybe glorified through Jesus Christ;
to whom be praise forever and ever.
Amen."--- m Peter 4: 11.
Being mindful of God's love to
usward, saving us from our sins, and
making us partakers of these heaven,
ly gifts, and, seeing we are members
of the same body, let us have grace
to minister one to another and " use
hospitality one to another without
grudging." Not all can be prophets,
not all have the word of wisdom,
not all can work miracles; some may
not have any of these special gifts;
yet all in one body and members one
of " But now
another.
hath God set the mem-bers
every one of them in the body,
as it hath pleased him," every one
to his place; " And the eye cannot
say unto the hand, I have no need of
thee; nor amain, the head to the
feet, I have no need of you. Nay,
J

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Blow ye the Tru mpet in Zion, sound an alarm in my holy mountain. Joe12: 1.
The Lord God sh all blow the Trumpet, and go with whirlwinds. Zech. 9: 14.
All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he
li fteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a Trumpet, hear ye.
Isa. 18: 3.
And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a Trumpet, and they shall
gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven t o the
other. Mat. 21: 31.
So will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they
have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. Eze. 34: 12. , Ter. 32: 39.
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Though human hearts and looks deceive,
I close to Jesus press,
And know that I am ever safe,
Clothed in his righteousness.
I'll trust him ever, he is true,
And evermore will keep;
Though storms of persecution rise,
The Lord doth know his sheep.
Dora B. Riggs.
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The Last Days. If f
T HE words selected for the heading
of this chapter are often employed
by writers both of the Old and
the New Testament to designate
the present dispensation. In this chapter
we desire to call the special attention of
the reader to all the texts in which it is
thus applied, and to prove by the contexts
that the inspired authors spoke of the
current dispensation.
Jacob is the first of the Old Testament
saints to employ this expression. Upon
his deathbed he called his sons around
him, saying, " Gather yourselves together,
that I may tell you that which shall befall
you in the last days."- Gen. 49: 1.
The burden of his prophecy is that
which he uttered concerning Judah:
" Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren
shall praise: thy hand shall be in the
neck of thine enemies; thy father's
children shall bow down before thee.
Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey,
my son, thou art gone up: he stooped
down, he crouched as a lion, and as an
old lion; who shall rouse him up? The
scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor
a lawgiver from between his feet, until
Shiloh come; and unto him - shall the
gathering of the people be"- Ver. 8- bo.
The main feature of the above prophecy
is the coming of Shiloh ( rest- giver), a
term used to signify the Savior; and the
adoration of Judah, which in the Christian
dispensation is fulfilled in the worshiping
of Jesus of Nazareth, who sprang from
the tribe that descended from him.
He also predicted a continuous line of
rulers in the seed of Judah, which was
fulfilled from David to Christ. Justin
Martyr, a writer of the second century,
tells us that Herod was the first foreign
prince who swayed the scepter in Judah,
and it was during his reign that our
Savior was born. " Dialogue with Trypho"
Chap. LII.
Jacob doubtless uttered this prophecy
only to give a sign unto the chosen nation
that when they should see a foreign ruler
seize the scepter they should know that
the time had arrived for the Christ to
make his appearance. So it seems that
every feature of Jacob's prophecy pointed
to the coming of Christ and what should
take place in the Christian era. Yet he
said he was telling them " that which
should befall them in the last days."
Isaiah is the next to use the expression
" last days." He says: " And it shall
come to pass in the last days, that the
mountain of the Lord's house shall be
established in the top of the mountains,
and shall be exalted above the hills; and all
nations shall flow unto it. And many
people shall go and say, Come ye, and
let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
to the house of the God of Jacob; and be
will teach us of his ways, and we will
walk in his paths; for out of Zion shall
go forth the law, and the word of the
Lord from Jerusalem. And he shall
judge among the nations, and shall
rebuke many people: and they shall beat
their swords into plowshares, and their
spears into pruning- hooks: nation shall
not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more. 0
house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk
in the light of the Lord."- Isa. 2: 2- 5.
Here we have a sublime description of
the ushering in of the Christian dispensa-tion,
and the present peaceful reign of
the Messiah in the hearts of the redeemed.
The new covenant has actually been
given at Mount Zion, and the word of the
Lord is going forth, which began at
Jerusalem. Luke 24: 47. But all this the
prophet said was to come to pass in the
last days. So it is very evident that he
also denominates the Christian era " the
last days."
Next we come to the prophecies of
Micah, who was the last of the Old
Testament prophets to use the expression
" last days." He says: " But in the last
days it shall come to pass, that the
mountain of the house of the Lord shall
be established in the top of the moun-tains,
and it shall be exalted above the
hills; and people shall flow unto it. And
many nations shall come, and say, Come,
and let us go up to the mountain of the
Lord, and to the house of the God of
Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways,
and we will walk in his paths: for the law
shall go forth of Zion, and the word of
the Lord from Jerusalem."- Micah 4: 1,2.
This prophecy is so very similar to the
one we quoted from Isaiah that we deem
it unnecessary to quote further. Like
Isaiah he speaks of the law going forth
out of Zion, and the word of the Lord
from Jerusalem, in the last days; which
we have already shown to have met its
fulfillment in the introduction of Chris-tianity.
Therefore we rank him among
the inspired writers who denominate the
Christian era " the last days."
New Testament writers also call the
Christian dispensation " the last days."
Paul says, " This know also, that in the
last days perilous times shall come. For
men shall be lovers of their own selves,
covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers,
disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
without natural affection, false accusers,
incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that
are good, traitors, heady, highminded,
lovers of pleasures more than lovers of
God; having a form of godliness, but
denying . the power thereof: from such
turn away."- 2 Tim. 3: 1- 5.
Surely the spiritual- minded can see in
the above a prophecy of the great apos-tasy.
But were there not such characters
as Paul here describes upon the earth in
his day? Yes, but the mere existence of
such wicked elements as are here de-scribed
upon the earth cannot imperil
Christianity so long as it does not become
contaminated; and such was not the peril
predicted by Paul. The burden of his
prophecy was that these wicked charac-ters
should cloak themselves with
a profession of Christianity. This even
his own words in verse 5 clearly show:
" Having a form of godliness, but denying
the power." This, to our sorrow, we see
strikingly fulfilled on every hand to- day.
But mark the fact that all this was to
take place in " the last days." Shall we
not therefore, add this to our list of
testimonies that the Christian era is " the
last days"?
But Paul speaks more clearly in another
place. " God, who at sundry times and
in divers manners spake in time past unto
the fathers by the prophets, hath in these
last days spoken unto us by his Son."-
Heb. 1: 1,2.
This statement is so clear that it would
be difficult to misunderstand it. Whatever
the signification, it is evident that " these
last days" in the text just quoted, applies
to the present dispensation.
We will here make room for Peter's
testimony. " Knowing this first, that
there shall come in the last days scoffers,
walking after their own lusts."- 2 Pet. 3: 3.
Here we have another application of
the term " last days" to the ' Christian
dispensation. If any of the Millennial
teachers are desirous of stretching this
prophecy to a future age, they refute
their theory of universal righteousness,
for Peter is speaking of an age that shall
abound with " scoffers walking after their
own lusts." The fact is, Peter is speaking
of the present age, and we add his
testimony to our list of scriptural eviden-ces
that the present dispensation is " the
last days."
We have now proved our point by six
clear scriptural proofs. It is evident that
the texts we have quoted from the Old
Testament are not applicable to the latter
part of the old: dispensation, because as
we have shown they belong to predictions
of events that have met their fulfillment
in the new dispensation. It is also very
evident that Paul in Heb. 1: 1,2, was not
speaking of the latter end of the present
dispensation: because he affirms it as an
event already completed-" God hath in
these last days spoken unto us by his
Son." With these facts before us we can
but conclude that the inspired writers
called the Christian era as a whole, " the
last days:" and I know of no sensible
interpretation of their words except that
in the dispensation in which we now live
is the last age of time. Why then do men,
in opposition to these clear statements in
God's word, look for an " age to come"?
W. G. SCHELL.
Use the Word
X WORLDLY argument based on
scientific truths cannot possibly
have the same weight that the Word
has in convincing the erring ones.
Whenever we commence to use too
much of self in an article or forget
to honor God by not using his word
to prove what we say in our testimo-nies;
the wisdom of this world being
foolishness with God, is only too true
and the foolishness of our words is
apparent to all. They lack the true
wisdom.
" Seest thou a man wise in his own
conceit? There is more hope of a
fool than of him."- Prov. 26: 12.
" Trust in the Lord with all thine
heart, and lean not unto thine own
understanding."- F'rov. 3: 5.
We are exhorted in the Word to
abide in the things, wherein we are
learned. " But continue thou in the
things which thou hast learned and
hast been assured of, knowing of
whom thou host learned them."
- 2 Tim. 3: 14.
Science never has been able to suc-cessfully
controvert these scriptural
truths, and cannot hope to supplant
the Word by any of the traditions of
men or philosophical arguments, and
we are never made sure that we are
right when we are led into trusting
to scierme to defeat Satan. If we
would win in this conflict, let us use
the two- edged sword of the Spirit.
B. F. GAY.
SattotO cation.
EFINED: SANCT FICATION, the
act of sanctifying. SANCTIFY)
to make sacred, or holy. HOLY, per-fectly.
pure.
By this definition of the word sanc-tification,
we find that to be sancti-fied,
is to be in an undefiled state
( See 2 Cor. II : 2; Eph. 5: 25- 127.) ; a
state of purity. { See Acts 15: 8, 9;
' no. 3: 3.)
" Follow peace with all men, and
holiness [ purity], without which no
man shall see the Lord."- Heb.
12: 13.
Holiness is truly , the most beauti-ful
of all the characteristics of God's
house ( church). It is possible to be
in possession of a vast amount of
love, but if it is not in full relation-ship
with God's holiness, it may soon
exist in a very corrupt state, and be
found to proceed from a source far
from the unadulterated fountain of
divine purity. Again, we may have
peace, and joy- and that very ex-tensive-
but never can we be in
possession of perfect peace, and full-ness
of joy, until we receive the
cleansing ( 1 Jno. I: 7), the purging
( Jno. 15: 2); viz., become sanctified
wholly. 1 Thess. 5: 23.
" Holiness becometh thine house,
0 Lord, forever."- Psa. 93: 5. " This
is the law of the house; Upon the top
of the mountain [ Mount Zion the
whole limit thereof round- about
shall be most holy. Behold, this is
the law of the house [ church]."-
Ezek. 43 : 12. " Whose house are
we."- Heb. 3: 6.
To- day in our land the Devil has
many, many vain forms of religion,
under a cloak of holiness. And we
are sad to say, that by the awful de-ceivableness
thereof, many precious
souls are being ensnared and are
unknowingly on the broad road to
destruction. ( See Matt. 7: 21- 23.)
And some of these, false cloaks are
so near like the genuine, that only
by the spiritual, can they be detect-ed.
At this we marvel not; for God
hath faithfully forewarned us, that
" Satan himself is transformed into an
angel of light; therefore it is no
great thing if his ministers also be
transformed as the ministers of
righteousness."- 2 Cor. II: 14, 15.
Therefore, " beloved, believe not
every spirit, but try the spirits wheth-er
they are of God; because many
false prophets are gone out into the
Jno. 4: i.
The Devil very well knows that
his grand success of sect scheming is
at an end with the true children of
God, and nearly as much so with the
honest sinner, who is making no pre-tension
of godliness. Therefore he
has the entire factory of illusiveness,
diligently engaged in the manu-facture
of FALSE holiness. And like
unto the idolatrous miser grabbing
for his coin, so do the people lay
hold of this false religion, whose in-ventor
is the Devil, and are immedi-ately
immerged in the awful soul- de-stroying
spirit of deception. We al-so,
beloved, must be diligent that " we
may be found of him in peace, with-out
spot, and blameless" ( 2 Pet. 3: 14) ,
that we be not ensnared by the
craftiness df his deceivers; for " if it
were possible, they would deceive the
very elect."- Matt. 24: 24. There-fore,
let us " try the spirits, whether
they are of God." How try them?-
By God's word. The Spirit of God
and his word agree. See 1 jno. 5: 7
In many cases of this false holi-ness
there is an abundance of spirit,
manifesting itself by wild yells, furi-ous
looks, stiffening out on the floor,
horifying groans, falling over chairs,
and many other unseemly actions,
which proceed froth individuals, who
perhaps are fighting the undefiled
plan of salvation, and whose lives
are plainly condemned and exposed
thereby. Such are some of the
particular proceedings manifested by
false holiness professors, being in-fluenced
by the false spirit, which
they received when they obtained
what they term the Holy Ghost, the
sanctifier. Therefore let us " try the
spirits."
We were permitted some time ago
to attend a few meetings run under
this false spirit ( Antichrist), after
which we obtained opportunity to
converse with the leader of the ser-vices.
We found him full of self-conceit,
" heady" ( 2 Tim. • 3: 4), and
unwilling to acknowledge the truth,
when clearly illustrated and read to
him from God's word. Having had
opportunity to testify in the said
meetings, we did so; and spoke the
truth as the dear Lord filled our
mouth, which was mostly his word.
While conversing with him, he call-ed
my attention to the fact that each
time we testified it shut off the, spirit
( which controlled them). Well, my
soul said amen. And this text ran
through our mind like a flash " Ye
are of God, little children, and have
overcome them; because greater is
he that is in you, than he that is in
the world."--- I Jno. 4: 4. Praise God!
So it is, dearly beloved, as the apos-tle
has here represent, If we live
true to God, and obey him, our testi-mony
or his blessed word faithfully
declared, backed up by the mighty
power of the abiding Comforter, will
quell every Antichrist spirit and
bring you forth more than conqueror.
A. J. ELLISON.
Faith and Trust,
66e) 6 HEN said Daniel unto the cr king, 0 king, live forever.
My God hafts sent his angel, and
hath shut the lions' mouths, that
they have not hurt me: forasmuch
as before him innocency was found
in me; and also before thee, 0 king,
have I done no hurt."- Dan. 6: 21,22.
On, how beautifully this shows
forth the faith and trust Daniel had
in the God of heaven! He knew
very well the decree that the king
had established, and that if he dis-obeyed
he should be cast into a den
of lions. But with perfect faith and
trust in God and innocent before
God and man, he feared not what man
could do unto him. God himself
sent his angel and stayed the lions'
mouths and he received no harm.
Dear ones in Christ, the Devil is
going up and down the earth to- day
as a roaring lion seeking whom he
may devour ( I Pet. 5: 8), teaching
for doctrine the commandments of
men. I pray that God will waken
us up to a deeper faith and trust in
him and his word. Like faithful
Daniel, may we have our windows
open toward Jerusalem and examine
our hearts before him, that through
perfect submission to his word and
will we may be found innocent be-fore
God and man of having accept-ed
any doctrine contrary to that we
have received and wherein we stand;
namely, the doctrine of our Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ.
" And what shall I more say? for
the time would fail me to tell • of
Gideon, and of Barak, and of Sam-son,
and of Jephthae; of David also,
and Samuel, and of the prophets:
who through faith subdued king-doms,
wrought righteousness, ob-tained
promises, stopped the mouths
of lions, quenched the violence of
fire, escaped the edge of the sword,
out of weakness were made strong,
waxed valiant in fight, turned to
flight the armies of the aliens."-
Heb. i i: 32- 34.
Dear saints of God; do we fully
understand what sweeping victory
we can have over the enemy and his
ministers who are teaching that
Christ has not set up his kingdom
yet, and that at the judgment day
the wicked are to be cast into hell
and be burned up at once, that they
will not be tormented forever? And
the precious word of God is being
twisted in many other ways. But
praise be to him who has brought
us out of darkness into his marvel-ous
light! In his word he tells us
that in the last days perilous times
shall come. 2 Tint. 3: 1. Surely as
we look around us and meditate
upon these things, we can see of a
truth these are perilous times. But
what a blessing and comfort to know
that faith and trust in God with
decision will carry us safely through!
And we can say with Paul, " For I
am now ready to be offered, and the
time of my departure is at hand. I
have fought a good fight, I have
finished my course, I have kept the
faith."- 2 Tim. 4: 6 7.
" So shall they fear the name of
the Lord from the west, and his
glory from the rising of the sun.
When the enemy shall come in like
a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall
lift up a standard against him."
E. W. GRI: ELEV.
TRUSTING IN JESUS.
I close my eyes to Satan's snares,
I see but Christ alone;
What need I care for sneering foes,
Since he is all my own. -
My raptured soul is full of song,
My night has passed away;
For Jesus is the glorious Light,
Along this pilgrim way.
I walk by faith, and not by sight,
I live because he died;
He leads me by his own right hand,
The blessed Crucified.
Dark winter days cannot bring gloom,
Sweet Spring doth reign within,
For all things now are fair and pure,
Since I am saved from sin.
OUTSIDE WORK.
' GOSPEL TRUMPET
A WEEKLY HOLINESS JOURNAL.
Littered at the POI{ C. OffiCe at Grand Junction, Mich., as Sesond- alass Mattel
- ME GOSPEL TRUMPET. God in the community lay by as the Lord
has prospered you to help support the
meeting, as there. are only a few saints in
HowardiCity. Leroy Sheldon and Wife.
- I been fixed a While before. But it .-
caught in the roof near the pipe and:-
we had no chance to save it.
So the Lord's share and a great
deal more got burned, and we had
no Place to lay our heads, with five .
small children, one a babe of five
months old. It no more than served
us right. It was a great loss of earth-ly
things but a gain of heavenly, as
we count all things Work together
for good to them that love the Lord;
So we have that promise. The dear
Lord is wonderfully supplying our
needs and we are very thankful to
all who are so kindly aiding us.
Our two little ones had hard colds
at the time. One had the croup a
night or two before the fire, so We
thought he was dying. He asked us
to pray, which we did, anti he g ot
better. Then we had to take him
right out in the cold and he began
to get worse. We wrote to the
Trumpet Office for them to ' ray fur
our two little ones, which they did,
and they were healed. To God ,
all the glory.
We want God's true children to
pray the real prayer of faith for lie
as there is a good deal we stand in
need of yet. Pray that the Lord a
give us work to supply our needs and
lead us now just where lit ::! Wants us.
and make it known to
he wants us to do: and tha
will send Gospel workers
there are a good many zuixtous to
hear the true gospel preached.
Let every one take \ Yarning that
reads this and never hold 1): tick the
Lord's means; for there
perishing souls which could be sav,
ed, if we give what the Lord wants
us to. Dear ones, let US I the--
real worth of a soul. E
brother and sister. trusting
MR, AND MRS. I). I I.
ame.
A few years ago a young brother
ho had been recently saved sent in
S testimony. and after waiting a
w weeks and did not see his writ-gs
appear he wrote us quite a sharp
tter, stating that he had sent in his
stimony and we would not publish
and if that was the way we were
ing to treat a young convert, he
d enough of the TRUMPET. We
rote him a very kind letter telling
m that the TRUMPET had but four
ges and was ' only issued once a
eek, and asked him what he- would
if he were the editor, and had
ough testimonies to last several
eks, if no more were sent in, and
ough articles on hands, without
ing any testimonies; enough news
orn the field to fill the whole paper;
number of obituaries, poetry, re-ests,
etc. He wrote back asking
to forgive him for his hasty con-sions
and remarks, and said he
d never thought of these things
d in what a peculiar situation the
itor is placed regarding the same.
There are calls, requests, and writ-
S of various kinds we would glad-insert,
if there were space, but the
ges will hold only so much. And
would say that on account of our
tensive correspondence and mani-d
other labors, the editorial work
S been greatly neglected.
Our correspondence is from three
ndred to one thousand letters re-ved
a week. Last month we paid
t two hundred twenty- nine dollars
d forty- five cents postage for mail-papers,
letters, books, • etc. A
months ago we sent about two
ndred dollars' worth of books
ecret of Salvation" " Divine Heal-
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THURSDAY. APR. 22, 1897.
• Calls for Meetings.
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Some of God's true servants are desired
to come here and hold meeting in May.
Address Mrs. L. J. Sedwick, Kittanning,
Pa.
Cannot some of God's true preachets
come here? It is sixty- two miles south of
Paducah, Ky. Any one who feels led in
J
this direction, address me at Hamlin, Ky.
. Maston Thomas.
Meetings.
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An assembly meeting beginning May
27 and lasting ten days, will be held on
the Floating Bethel, one square west of
the Sixth St. Bridge, Allegheny City, Pa,
Address G. T. Clayton, in care of " Float-ing
Bethel."
heAld gine ntheer atalb aesrnseamcleb layt mSheeertiknsgt own, i lOl nbe-tario,
May 14- 23. Let all the saints of
the Dominion come. Ordinance and
baptizing on the 23d. For needed infor-mation
write Levi Ecker, Sherlc- ston, Ont.
JOonht. n A. and Alice J. Dillon, Welland,
There will be a tabernacle meeting
at Howard City, Mich., commencing May
6. Bro. Win. Warren is expected to help
In the meeting. Let all the dear saints of
Shall We Enlarge the Trumpet?
NTIL five years ago the TRUMP-
/ ET was published semimonthly.
Then the Lord moved upon us to
publish it weekly, and for some time
the great need has been felt by read-ers
and publishers, of having it en-larged.
Letters to that effect are
frequently coming to us, asking why
it cannot be published in eight or
sixteen page form, and what would
be required to make it such. To
double the size would be to double
the expense of paper, postage, work,
and workers in that department;
would also r quire a larger press
upon which to print it, and other
materal.
As we have a letter before us de-siring
to know the needs and how
the TRUMPET readers could be of any
help in aiding in the work, we will
make a few statements which may
give the needed information. One
effectual way in which all can take
part is, in a united, fervent prayer
for the blessings of God upon the
work and that the needs be supplied.
The next is to put that prayer into
practice and help answer it, as far as
possible. Every Monday night the
Trumpet Family meet in special
prayer- meeting in behalf of the I
needs of the publishing walk, and
frequently the amount of bills due
for the coming week is between one
thousand and two thousand dollars,
for which at that time we specially
implore God to send in orders for
literature, and donations, to pay the
same. Many times our faith is test- i
ed, but we know he in whom we trust
is faithful.
This is the seventeenth year of the
publication of the TRUMPET. Its
former ecitor, after years of earnest
toil and faithful labor for God, has
gone to dwell with him, and is reap- w
ing his reward in glory. Ten years I
ago when we came into the office h
here, by the direction of the Lord, P
there were only six or seven persons t
in the Trumpet Family, which in-eluded
the workers of eyery depart- a
meta. Now the family numbers be- a
tween sixty and seventy. These s
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cious letters of gratitude in reply,
and they are preaching the gospel of
full salvation in that dark heathen
land, and many more are wanted
These were all sent free. The
TRUMPET readers have sent us $ 44. 7
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of that amount.
About a year ago we began send:
ing out a roll of TRUMPETS to the dif
ferent post- offices where it had no
t
been sent, which was kept up as long
as means were provided for that pur_
pose. Postmasters distributed them
and they fell into the hands of many
who were eagerly seeking light and
truth, and we received many letters
of thankfulness. Among the number
who received one of those papers,
was a young man in Virginia, who
became much interested in the truth,
feeling the hand of God upon him
for the work, came to work for the
Lord at this place, and now has
charge of the mailing department in
our office.
There is need of a united effort on
every hand, to spread the pure gos-pel.
Holy literature. needs to be
spread in every direction. Holy
men and women need to be sent
forth in gospel work. Tabernacles
and meeting- houses are needed. It
must go forth more speedily. God
will have it so. He may demand a
hundredfold more of some than they
have done. He will doubtless call
upon some farmers for their farm,
some business man for his stock on
hands, some day- laborer for his daily
wages. It will go forth. God will
have it so. The apostolic faith and
power will not be manifest as it
should until there is an awakening
and action on this line.
It is not because we want your
money that we speak thus plainly.
Ask God where it is most needed,
and send wherever he directs. We
know that God has not turned a deaf
ear to all the earnest prayers which
have been offered in behalf of the
spread of the pure gospel, and failed
to move men and women to lend a
helping hand. And no doubt there
has been enough property and money
lost through disobedience of those
to whom the Lord has been talking
during the last five years, to spread
the pure gospel a hundredfold more,
had there been freely given what the
Lord demanded, of that which was
his own. God may have to speak in
stronger terms to some by his power,
before they will realize he means
business. There are many faithful
brethren who will stand for the truth
even unto the death. May God bless
and reward them abundantly with
the riches of his glory.
Take Warning.
HARBOR SPRIls GS,
EMMET Co., MICH.
DEAR TRUMPET READERS: As we
purpose in our hearts, so let us give
willingly, not grudgingly but of a
ready mind; for God loveth a cheer-ful
giver. I write this to warn others;
for we have met with a great loss.
Our house burned and about half
the household goods, and all our
vegetables and roots and about half
of our canned fruit, and the roots
we had for feed for our stock. As
we did not have much feed, we had
raised quite a good many roots, and
the Lord bid us to sell some and use
the means for the Lord. When we
could not find ready sale for them
and knew we would need all our-selves
and more too, the Devil tried
o satisfy our minds and make us
believe that as we had helped some,
it would do.
But it seemed just as if something
was going to happen. At first things
froze some, and then stopped. So
we felt safe, but not right. But
remember, when we can say peace
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a good lesson that hereafter what is
the Lord's will surely go for the work
of the Lord, and we hope it will be so
with every one who reads this, al-though
some may say, " Our stoves are
safe; there is no danger of fire." I
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Pray for the salvation and healing of
G. B. Waits. R. H. 0.
Pray next Sunday for my healing of
catarrh, head and stomach trouble, also
for my wife, who has rheumatism.
Pray for Mrs. Parker, April 27, at 3
o'clock, that she may be healed of deaf-ness.
L. Allnutt.
Pray April 24, for healing of John
Shewmake— cough and catarrh.
Also, Mack Bullard,— gravel.
Pray for me that I may be healed both
soul and body, Sarah A. Davison.
Pray for me and my sister in Texas,
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I cannot rest day or night. Winnie Cope.
We desire you to pray for our child
who has been afflicted most of his life,
and seems to be like the case mentioned
in Matt. 17: 14- 21. C. M. Mangrum.
I want your prayers, that I may be
fully the Lord's and healed of scrofula
and catarrh of the head and throat.
Please make special prayer next Sunday.
A. A. Black, Myrtle Point.
Grand Junction C. M. June 15- 25.
Bro. G. T. Clayton reports a good
work going on at the Floating Bethel,
and in the city, at Allegheny, Pa.
The assembly meeting will begin
there May 27, and last ten days or
more.
Requests for Prayer.
J. N. Worden. H. A. Shewmake, Aaron Strick
ler, Mary Cole, M. J. Cowdrey.
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is needed at the camp ground), and
* heat, or flour, which we have to
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and comparatively little raised.
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direct railroad lines, or not too far
away, could aid much in the gospel
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hundred cords of wood a year, and a
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ring it to pass.
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There are several reasons why the
TRUMPET should be enlarged, of
hich we will only mention a few.
n the first place, the truth needs to
e sent forth more abundantly. The
eople desire it, and feel the need of
he same. Many wonder why we do
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rticles, obituaries, etc., and answer
11 the questions sent in. Perhaps
ome will now begin to realize that
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ages, which will account for the
We thought so too, for the. pipes had
NoTF
ul have been the mercies
ANOTHER LETTER FROM INDIA.,
CALCUTTA, INDIA, March 17.
MY DEARLY BELOVED BROTHER:
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another case where a br her tie
cal to obey God. flit c
were something as follows: .1 Ii.
was very much needed to be H ied in
the work of the I., ord, and tin.. Lord
moved upon a brother ouite a dis-tance
from that place to
his best horses as a donation.
told his , wife about it, and told w • .11
one the Lord had made known
he should give. She \ would Ii( lt CI) -
sent to part with that one, as it was
their favorite. He said it was that
one or none. However. the horse
was not sent. In a few days it died:
The loss of this one seene. al to be
an excuse for not giving another
from about half a dozen that remain-ed.
Soon another one died, and it
was not long until the last one was
gone. He procured a span of mules.
thinking they would be in no danger,
but they soon met the same fate.
Next two yoke of oxen were obtained,
but seeing they would soon go the
same way if he kept them, he disposed -
of them. He became involved in
debt, both he and wife backslid, and
they felt the hand of the Lord- wasa-gainst
them. We learn that they
have since turned unto the Lord
with repenting hearts and determin-ed
to walk in the ways of his truth,
and are now enjoying his blessings.
These instances are only among
thousands of a similar nature, where -
disobedience has brought trouble to
both soul and body and much finan-cmioanle
ylo asnsd. hMoaanrdye dh apvoess esseseionn st hdeei- r
Part from them and worldly posses-sions
suddenly go beyond their grasp,
because the Lord did not get his
share to be used for the rescue of'
Souls. -
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GOSPEL HEALING HOME.
things. 0, what a good thing it
would be if all our boys could
be taught to trust in the Lord
in the same way!
And if I go on adding instances of
the Lord's goodness and mercy,
which are far too many to count,
space would not allow me to write
about half of them; but I will speak
of one more instance where the
Spirit is working in a boy's mind in
our barracks. This boy ( rather a
young man) came to see the truth
about perfection and faith healing,
and believed them, but some of his
friends became displeased with him
for that. But he is holding the
truth in spite of the strong opposi-tions
of his friends, and he is trust-ing
in the Lord and in the Lord
alone. Pray that he may be com-forted
and strengthened of the Lord
to stand against the attacks of them
alt who oppose the stronger light.
Lastly, I must thank you very,
very much for all the valuable books
and tracts that you have sent. They
have been an effective means of
helping the cause of truth as it is in
Jesus. I cannot finish thanking You
for that, and eternity can alone re-veal
the good fruits that they all will
bear. I have been distributing them
far and wi, de and sowing among
many waters, and I am ' sure they
will bring forth much fruit unto the
Lord. Keep on praying for us all,
dear brother, for the work that the
Lord gave us to do. Pray also that
much good may come out of a tour
we are intending to undertake in the
neighboring districts among - the
Christians, to preach the new truths
that are neglected everywhere. I
mean, sanctification, faith healing,
etc. May God bless you all. With
much holy love, I am your younger
brother, A. D. KHAN.
OAKLAND, CAL., Mar. 27.
DEAR SAINTS OF GOD: I have just
returned from a trip south, of nearly
four weeks, during which time l have
endeavored to cry aloud and spare
not, Visited the cities of Fresno,
Los Angeles, and San Diego. Spent
but a few days in Fresno, but God
was with us. Bro. Geo. L. Cole and
company were there for several
months during the winter. Their
labors in pracdcal missionary work
have been owned and blessed of God.
M lily sorrowing hearts have been
comforted and brought into a deeper
experience in Christ. Some who
knew not God have been saved, and
afii.' cted and suffering ones have
been healed.
We announced a holiness and divine
healing meeting for Sunday, Mar. 7,
which was well attended. Some of
the saints were in from Easton and
other country places. The day was
one of refreshing from the presence
of the Lord in full gospel grace.
Fresno and vicinity is a promising
field. There has been come faithful
sowing of gospel seed, some of which
has grown and been already harvest-ed,
while some is yet in much need
of careful and wise watering, and
there is also yet great need of much
more faithful sowing. What is true
with regard to this city and vicinity
is practically true in many other
fields.
My time was limited, and I left for
Los Angeles Mar. 8. Met with some
of the brethren in the mission meet-ing
Mar. 9. Made arrangements for
a series of meetings in that city for
the following week, and on the loth,
went on to San Diego. Spent a
week in that city in dealing out the
bread of life to many hungry souls.
It was very encouraging and inspir-ing
to see the people come with
listening ears and open hearts. The
Lord confirmed his word in many re-spects,
and I believe the pure truth
has gained confidence in many hearts,
that will result in helping build up
the cause of Christ.
I must testify to the healing of my
voice during my stay at San Diego.
Having been exposed to getting wet
and also being over heated on one
and goodness of the Lord upon us,
and loving and unmistakable has
been his preser c:.‘ with us of late.
I think I have written to you in my
last that I left Calcutta for a time
and went to Mymensingh, a district
in East Bengal, where I first heard
the " wonderful word of life" and
was led to see my Jesus as my Christ
and king. There the Lord's good-ness
followed me and after conver-sation
and reading together of your
" Secret of Salvation" and the
" Divine Healing" one friend came
to believe in divine healing as set
forth in the scriptures, and many
became eager to know more about
the truth. Many there were who
heard it for the first time, that " faith
healing" was possible even in these
days. Many were astonished and
praised the Lord. There was an in-valid
who eagerly listened to the
truth, and asked for a copy of your
" Divine Healing" which I gave him,
and he began to read the book.
May the Lord bless him in his study.
The friend who came to believe in
divine healing is the one whose in-fluence
and teaching and prayer
brought me to the feet of my Savior
three years ago. She is a converted
Jewess, a lady missionary from Aus-tralia,
and indeed a child of God
who, it can be said with truthfulness,
lives for her Master's glory: and hers
is a truly consecrated life, which
helped me very much in my Chris-tian
life and growth. She, very soon
after, also saw that tea was not ne-cessary,
besides it was not good to
the system; and no sooner did she
see that, than she gave it up alto-gether,
for the Lord's sake and her
body's sake, which is a temple of the
Lord. She, first of all, having been
convinced that it was a stimulant,
said at once that the Lord's people
do not need any stimulants; so she
gave it up. Praise the Lord!
Again, another, a brother who was
adicted to the filthy habit of smok-ing,
gave it up when I spoke to him
about it and explained the evil
thereof; and the same also has been
a hard tea- drinker, who could not
do without tea, but has now given
up a great deal and is thinking of
giving it up altogether; while there
is another who is seriously thinking
about the question. May the Lord
bless them both abundantly in their
souls, and give them strength to
fight out the evil habit.
Perhaps you remember I wrote to
you to pray for a Mahomedan coa-
- vert who was among his ewn people
and was under manifold temptations.
A severe trial was brought forward
and they of his own flesh and blood
tried hard to env, ap him, but the Naza-rene
conq uered at last. After pass-ing
through the refiner's fire of
hardship and temptation untold, and
suffering most painfully and igno-miniously
( to the eye of the world)
for a season of nearly six months, he
came out again in our midst to glo-rify
the Lord. He is very happy
now in the Lord and has consecrated
his life for the Lord's work. Praise
the Lord for having answered our
united prayers ( for all this time I
was incessantly praying for him—
almost every day) " and this is the con-fidence
that we have in . him, that, if
we ask anything according to his
will, he heareth us." Oh, what a
loving and happy confidence?
One day a boy in the house in
which I was living while at Mymen-singh,
had a bad pain and was
hindered from going to school, and
as he was agonizing in pain I asked
him if he believed in the power of
the Lord to heal him, and explained
to him more about it; and immedi-ately
he was led to pray for his pain,
and in a few minutes the pain was
all gone and he could sleep, and in
the afternoon walk as usual. Two
or three days later he got diarrhea
again. I asked him to go to the
same good physician who healed
him before, and he did so: but this
time he was shown the wicked
thing that he had done which caused
the trouble, and he repented and the
Lord healed him. His faith has
been much stronger and he got to
PHILADELPHIA, PA., Apr. 14.
DEAR BRETHREN: What we fed
God wants here is a company of
workers to take up this work which
has been started here, or to take our
tabernacle, which will otherwise lie
die. If a company could come here
for the sernmer or a part of it at
east, we could fill other calls,
which we have or they could fi I
these calls, as God may direct.
A man and wife would be
suited for the work. May God
have his way. Your brother in
Jesus, B. F. WEIKEL,
505 W. Lehigh Aye,
Philadelphia, Pa.
VENANGO, PA., Apr. 15..
DEARLY BELOVED: We are happy
to say that we are well and saved,
and growing in grace and in the
knowledge of our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ. On our way here we
stopped a few days w ith the church
at Monterey. Then came to Utica,
where we held meeting over three
Sundays. Bro. and Sister Billig
came over and were with us a few
days. At this place a few are taking
their stand on the whole truth as
God gives them light. We shall
preach there by appointment until
the work is established. We have
held a few meetings with the little
church at Blystone. I shall be out
of the work ( mainly) for a few
months, on account of building a
house for my family. I desire to be
in the work again as soon as possible.
There are so many calls. Now if
any brethren in Pennsylvania who
are carpenters feel led to help me in
this matter, I will pay your way
here, and it will help me to get in
the Lord's harvest field sooner.
If any feel so led, please write me
at once. Address Venango, Craw-fordCo.,
Pa. Your saved brother,
H. M. RIGGLE.
know the Lord better by these ' occasion, my voice by constant use
daily and nightly, became affected
and at one meeting was nearly gone.
One person taunted me with the say-ing,
" Physician, heal thyself." I had
been preaching healing to others, now
practice it. At the close of the
evening meeting a number were
anointed for healing. After all were
done, I received the anointing for
myself. At once I felt the divine
touch in my throat. My voice speed-ily
returned and I was enabled to go
to Los Angeles and preach with a
loud voice to large congregations,
and was distinctly heard by all.
There the interest was good and in-creasing
throughout the entire series
of meetings. God did very signally
own and honor his blessed word.
There were many very deep and
thorough consecrations in both these
cities. Many who had heard but
little of this way were convinced of
the power and will of God, and by a
definite act of faith committed their
souls and bodies to God for his
saving, cleansing, and healing grace
and to walk in all the light of his
word as it shines upon them. At
Los Angeles we had one all night
of prayer, which was a gracious up-lift
to those present. While at San
Diego I also visited the little church
at Otay, twelve miles south of this
city, for one meeting.
During the entire trip I had the
blessed consciousness that God was
directing every step, and through the
power of the Holy Spirit the churches
were confirmed and strengthened.
He also greatly blessed and strength-ened
my dear wife in her increased
duties at home during my absence,
all for which we do humbly thank
God and take courage. Our hearts
are yearning for an increase of use-fulness
to the glory of God and suffer-ing
humanity. The dear Lord is
measurably giving us an outlet and
access to the hearts of many, but we
long for more, and we pray that we
may all as coworkers speedily carry
the blessings of the full gospel to
the dying world. The work in this
vicinity is gradually upon the increase.
Pray for us. We are as ever your
brother and sister set for the defense
of the gospel,
J. We AND J. BYERS.
LOVES LAKE, LA., Apr. 7.
DEARLY BELOVED TRUMPET READ-ERS:
This morning finds us sweetly
saved from all sin. Glory to the
blessed Lamb of God that taketh
away the sin of the world! We
closed meeting here last night with
victory on the Lord's side. Praise
his dear name! Two followed the
Lord yesterday in baptism and two
Lord's day before last. There were
many who seemed to be much con-victed
of their sins. We left some
poor sinners yesterday weeping • and
asking our prayers. God bless and
save them. We start south to- day
for Lena Station, La. Brethren,
pray for the dear ones in these parts
and for us that we may do our duty
in all things. All wishing to address
me can address me at Lena Station,
La, R. H. OWENS.
Address all orders to— A. dosigillits-
GOSPEL TRUMPET PUBLISHING CO.,
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GOSPEL TRUMPET.
My Christ— he is the Heaven of heavens,
My Christ— what shall I call?
My Christ is first, my Christ is last;
My Christ is all in all.
MRS. M. L. ROBINSON.
much more those members of the
body which seem to be more feeble
are necessary." " But much more
necessary are those members of the
body which are thought to be more
feeble."— Wilson's translation. " And
those members of the body, which
we think to be less honorable, upon
these we bestow more abundant
honor; and our uncomely parts
have more abundant comeliness."
I Cor. 12: 18, 21- 23.
More honor is put on the un-comely,
for they have need. Our
comely parts have no need. So " God
bath tempered the body together,
having given more abundant honor
to that part which lacked."— Ver. 24,
Beloved, dust thou see why God did
this? Ver. 25 tells—" that the members
should have the same care one for
another." ( Emphatic Diaglott, " the
members may be concerned the same
on behalf of each other.")
There is no difference in Christ
Jesus. One is not above another.
God accepts no man's person. Neither
can we. Fervent love one to another
covereth the multitude of sins and
fulfills the royal law. This is a deep
thrill of love that exists • only in his
body, the Church; for it is the love
of • the Spirit. " And whether one
member suffer all the members suffer
with it; or one member be honored,
all the members rejoice with it."—
Cor. 12: 2- 6. How beautifully and
perfectly the Father hath bound our
hearts together with cords of love!
Now concerning gifts and the
gift, God hath said, " As every man
hath received the gifts, even so min-ister
the same one to another, as
as good stewards of the manifold
grace of God."--- t Pet. 4: Io. We infer
from this that the Father hath given
us abundant grace to resist every as-sault
of the enemy of all souls.
Satan has many strongholds, such
as pride, highmindedness, and other
principalities and powers. From these
summits he with many other rulers
of the darkness of this world has set
himself in array and has already
succeeded in establishing his king-dom
in many hearts, but better
things are said of you who have re-ceived
of God's grace. " For if by
one man's offense death reigned by
one, much more they which receive
abundance of grace and of the gift
of righteousness shall reign in life by
one, Jesus Christ."— Rom. 5: 17.
Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ
and of his fullness have all we re-ceived.
See Jno. 1: 16, 17. Grace
reigns through righteousness by him.
Read Rom. 5: 21.
Having then grace and the gifts
by grace, we reign in this life by
esus Christ. Hence it is on the
very summit of God's love that grace
abounds. Who can receive this say-ing
into their hearts? For millions
of souls are now speedily going on to
judgment with the persuasion that
they must commit sin and continue
in sin that grace may abound, whose
end is according to their works.
However, there are some honest
hearts here and there who have be-lieved
this doctrine, not knowing the
truth; but for this cause shall they
obtain mercy when they do hear the
truth, if they will receive it into their
hearts.
Where sin reigns, it reigns unto
death; for " the wages of sin is
death." " Follow peace with all men,
and holiness, without which no man
shall see the Lord; looking diligent-ly
lest any man fail of the grace of
God; lest any root of bitterness
springing up trouble you and thereby, many be defiled."— Heb. 12: 14, IS.
Sin only reigns when the grace of
God fails. To commit sin is to be
carnally minded and to be carnally
minded is death. Rom. 8: 6.
In righteousness doth He ( the
Faithful and True, Revomm) judge
and make war, " And they that are
with him are called, and chosen, and
faithful."— Rev. 17: 14•
look to be humbled by sSin
w
n'eordoyyiienelodt
to any foe, but for grace from the
Father who " always causeth us to
triumph in Christ, and maketh man-ifest
the savor of his knowledge by
us in every place." H. E. ROGERS.
replied am just here in the
strength of the Lord; that is all."
He said, " It is a good thing to be
here in his strength." So when the
meeting began and the saints, were
testifying, I arose and testified to
the healing power of God, according
to Jas. 5 and Mark 16, and stated
that I was healed. But soon Satan
tempted me, and said, " You are not
healed. You have told a story." I
began to feel worse and worse, till I
thought I would sink to the floor.
But I was impressed that it was only
a trick of the Devil, and I went to
praying to God about it, and. got
the victory in a short time and never
felt better in my life. I continued to
gain strength and went the next night
to meeting and testified again to the
healing power of God. I also went
to meeting every night during the
week, and can truly say I have not
had the least touch of the grippe in
my body since. I was also healed of
the other afflictions that affected me
at that time. To God be all the
glory and praise. I have taken the
Lord for my physician for twelve
years, and would not exchange him
for all earthly physicians combined.
That is not the first time he has
raised me from my bed instanta-neously,
when I was very sick, with-out
a drop of medicine. Likewise
he has healed the children many
times. Bless his name! I am glad
to- day finds me saved, rejoicing in
a Savior's love, trusting him for all
things; and can say with the poet,
" Where he leads me, I will follow;"
being fully determined to go all the
way with Jesus. I am sanctified to
do his will.
My Christ— he is the Lord of lords,
He is the Ki ig of kings;
He is the Son a righteousness,
With healing in his wings.
My Christ— he is the tree of life,
Which in God, s garden grows,
Whose fruits do feed, whose leaves do heal;
My Christ is Sharon's rose.
Set Thy Rouse in Order.
Y love for God, his truth,
and all the saints compels me
to mention a few things that come
to my notice along the line of my
work, which things both God and
his children hate, but if spoken of
may stir the minds and souls of all
those who have not as yet " set their
house in order."
To my astonishment, I have
nessed in the houses of a few who
claim to be saints in • the blessed
" evening light" great irregularity in
time of family worship and cottage
meetings. 1 have often been grieved
in my soul to see the small children
of the saints of God, sitting upon
their chairs, while their father,
mother, and the preacher are on
their knees in family devotion.
Brethren, this is not " bringing up
the child in the way he should go"
neither is it " setting your house in
order."
Again, I have been present when
only part of the family would meet
in the sitting- room for worship.
The boys and hired hand would be
out in the barn feeding the stock.
and a boarder in the kitchen, while
a few were in the room worshiping
God. Brethren, we cannot expect
the blessings of God upon our souls
and allow such things in our house.
God commands us to rule our own
house and to have our children in
subjection. Not only should your
children obey the rules of your
house, but strangers also. There-fore,
in the name of Jesus, command
and demand all in your house who
eat at your table and sleep under.
your roof, to meet with you in wor-ship
and also kneel down while you
Dray. Brethren, respecting family
worship, no one shall make their
home with us who refuses to abide by I
the above rules.
Again, I have known the people i
of God to have cottage prayer- meet-ing
and the saints take, one room in
the house whine their children wouldlt
another, , and while the people!
Divine Healing.
Who Will Be Healed?
T will be those who come to
the Lord according to his word.
Those who come in faith, " doubting
nothing." They may come having
faith themselves, or, if not capable of
exercising faith, may be brought by
others to the Lord by faith. If a
person is capable of exercising faith,
it is required of him. To the woman
who touched his garment, Jesus said,
" Thy faith hath made thee whole."
To the woman of Canaan he said:
" 0 woman, great is thy faith: be it
unto thee even as thou wilt." The
nobleman whose child was dying
" believed the word that Jesus had
spoken unto him and went his way"
and the child was healed. Some
friends brought a man sick of palsy
who was no doubt unable to exercise
faith, " and Jesus seeing their faith
said unto the sick of the palsy; Son,
be of good cheer, thy sins be for-given
thee." " Arise and walk."
Dear afflicted ones, you have the
same privilege of coming to him and
being healed. Will you come? " I
would" says one, " but do not know
hoietcrcome." You must come in
faith, as did the people of olden
times, just believing his word, as did
the nobleman. And like the Syro-phenician
woman ( Matt. 15), do not
stop until F. it is done. It takes no
more faith now to be healed than it
did in those times.
Chronic Dyspepsia Healed -
VISALIA, CAL.
I praise the dear Lord for his
goodness and mercy in calling me
out of darkness into the marvelous
light of God. Last July I met with
some of God's true children for the
first time, attended their meetings,
and soon got under conviction.
But not realizing that my Savior
was ready to forgive as soon as I
had repented of my sins, I did not
receive my pardon until some time
later. In September I was blessed
with healing faith, and soon after,
wonderfully healed of an old chronic
case of dyspepsia, for which I praise
God every day. Bless his holy
name! Knowing that - the Lord re-quired
us to go on to perfection, I
began to consecrate for the second
work of grace, and was wholly sancti-fied
Nov. 24, 1896. Since then my
father, mother, two sisters, two bro-thers,
and an uncle have received
full salvation and were all bam iz' d
at one time. We have all t hrow n
medicine aside and taken the blessed
Lord for our physician and ° we find
him ever ready to heal and to bless,
when we ask in faith believing. I
know that my Redeemer liveth al d
is just the same yesterday, to day,
and forever. Please pray for us
that we may do the whole ti ill of
God. KATE MCGINNIS.
God Manifests His Power.
I believe I can glorify God by
ght ing a little of my experience in
regard to the healing of my body
a short time ago. I was quite sick,
affected in different ways, but
especially with the grippe. Had
been confined to my bed for some
days, not able to be up. On Sunday
evening after my son had returned
from holiness meeting and also had
got saved at the meeting that morn-ing,
I felt the Spirit of God leading
me to get up and go to the meeting.
I knew my condition, - knew I was
very weak. So I took it to the Lord
in prayer. I said, " Lord, if you want
me to go, give me courage and
strength." I still waited before the
Lord to find I had courage and
faith, but my strength was very
much limited. Still I could not get
rid of the impression to go. So I
arose and dressed myself and started
in the name of the Lord. He
enabled me to get there, but I felt
very weak. When I arrived, the
minister, knowing that I had been
sick, asked me how I was feeling.
of God were worshiping, the chil-dren
made sport and fun among
themselves. This also is an abomi-nation
in the sight of God, and you
cannot allow such and keep clear in
your souls. Alas! God will hold you
responsible in the day of judgment
for not doing your duty. Letting
things go on loosely is nothing less
than " walking disorderly" and God
commands us to withdraw from such.
Some who profess salvation in
Jesus, are by their means paying
their children's way to hell, while
they and God's ministers are pray-ing
for their salvation. For example,
about ten years ago a sister came to
me in tears asking me to earnestly
pray for her two boys. But I soon
learned through another sister that
she had the previous night given
each of them twenty- five cents to
pay their way at a dance. It is use-less
to pray for your dear children
while you indulge them in worldly
pleasure.
Fathers and mothers have been
known to spend money to push their
children out into society that they
might become popular, and have
neglected the cause of God and the
spreading of gospel truth. My dear
ones, " What you sow, that ye shall
reap." My motto is, Isa. 58: 1. Your
brother for the gospel,
SAMUEL L. SPECK.
Can We Live Without Sin?
CAN testify that I am saved and
A. serving the Lord in holiness and
righteousness. Some say that God
only is holy. Rev. 15: 14. That is so;
but God being in us, and he being
holy makes us holy; hence he says,
" Be ye holy; for I am holy."— t Pet.
1: 16. And in Heb. 12: 14 it says,
" Holiness, without which no man
shall see the Lord." Then we must
be holy if we get to heaven.
Some say that we cannot live free
from sin. But let us read the precious
words from the Bible: " And these
things I write unto you, that ye sin
not".— t John 1: 7. And, " If we walk
in the light as he is in the light, we
have fellowship one with another,
and the blood of Jesus cleanseth us
from all sin." Well, - then there is
none left, and the Word says, " He
that saith he abideth in him ought
himself also so to walk, even as he
walked."— t Jno. 2: 6.
John said, " Beloved, now are we
the sons of God; and it doth not yet
appear what we shall be, but we
know that when he shall appear e
shall be like him: for we shall see
him as he is. And every man that
hath this hope in him purifieth him-self,
even as he is pure."-- t Jno. 3: 2,3.
If we then be as pure as he is, we
will be without sin. Now you see
that he declares that we shall be like
him, but he does not stop here: " And
ye know that he was manifested to
take away our sins, and in him is no
sin."
Some holiness fighters say, " Who
can say, I have made my heart clean,
I am pure from ryn sin?"— Prov. 20: 0.
Certainly, no mans can say he has
made his own heart clean, for it takes
the blood of Jesus to cleanse our
hearts from all sin. Bless the Lord!
his Word is so plain. Hence he says
in Jno. 3: 6, " Whosoever abideth in
him sinneth not. Little children, let
no man deceive you: he that doeth
righteousness is righteous even as he
is righteous. He that committeth
sin is of the Devil; for the Devil sin-teeth
from the beginning; For this
purpose was the Son of God man-ifested,
that he might destroy the
works of the Devil." Bless the Lord
forever and ever!
" Whosoever is born of God cloth
not commit sin." This does not
sound like it a man says he is with-out
sin, he is a liar and the truth is
not in him, as many would like to
have it. Turn to Jno. 4: 17. He
says, " Herein is our love made
perfect, that we may have boldness
the day of judgment; because as
he is, so are we in this world. Not
only in the world to come, but in
his present world. Jesus said to the
min at the pool, Go, and sin no
more."— Jno. 5: 14. And in Inv. 8: 11
Jesus said to the woman, " Go, and
sin no more."
Dear ones, " Awake to righteous-ness,
and sin not."— I Cor. 15: 34.
Now, why not live free from sin?
Surely the Lord's grace is sufficient
to keep us free from sin. Some
say that our body commits sin.
But turn to I Thess. 5: 23. There we
read that our body is preserved
blameless; therefore we cannot com-mit
sin. Hence Paul says, " Knowing
this that our old man is crucified
with him, that the body of sin might
be destroyed, that henceforth we
should not serve sin." He says that
we are made free from sin. Rom 6:
22. We are shown in the word of
God that we must not commit sin, and
by the help of God let us live a godly
life, that we may gain heaven.
PORTER LONG.
Grace and Gifts.
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UT unto every one of us is
given grace according to the
measure of the gift of Christ.
Wherefore he saith, When he ascend-ed
up on high, he led captivity cap-tive,
and gave gifts unto men."— Eph.
4: 7,8.
In that he saith he led captivity.
captive and gave gifts unto men, he
desires men's hearts and entire
service first of all, and deliver-ance
from mammon servitude; then
he giveth gifts unto men. Not men
that are carnal, but spiritual; for gifts
being of the spirit are " spiritual."
Then one will say, " Cannot one,
spiritual, receive all the gifts of the
Spirit?" The Word does not say so.
" For the body is not one member,
but many."-- I Cor. 12: 14 If the foot
could perform the work of every
part of the body, the foot could say
to the ear, the eye, or the hand, I
have no need of thee. " But the man-ifestation
of the Spirit is given to
every man to profit withal. For to one
is given by the Spirit the word of
wisdom; to another the word of
knowledge by the same Spirit; to an-other
faith by the same Spirit; to an-other
the gifts of healing by the
same Spirit; to another the working
of miracles; to another prophecy; to
another discerning of spirits; to an-other
divers kinds of ton gues; to an-other
the interpretation of tongues:
but all these worketh that one and
the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every
man severally as he will."--- t Cor. 12:
8- 11.
While prophecies shall fail and
tongues shall cease, and knowledge
shall vanish away, yet the church is
edified in these things. To this end
did Paul exhort the brethren to fol-low
after charity ( have love one to
another) and desire spiritual gifts.
Cor. 14: x. Furthermore, " seek that
ye may excel to the edifying of the
church" which is the body of Christ;
for, " we being many are one body
in Christ, and every one members one
of another. Having then gifts dif-fering
according to the grace that is
given to us,.... let us prophesy ac-cording
to the pro p ortion of faith."
— Rom. 12: 5,6.
" If any man speak let him speak as
the oracles of God ; if any man minister
let him do it as of the ability which
God giveth: that God in all things
maybe glorified through Jesus Christ;
to whom be praise forever and ever.
Amen."--- m Peter 4: 11.
Being mindful of God's love to
usward, saving us from our sins, and
making us partakers of these heaven,
ly gifts, and, seeing we are members
of the same body, let us have grace
to minister one to another and " use
hospitality one to another without
grudging." Not all can be prophets,
not all have the word of wisdom,
not all can work miracles; some may
not have any of these special gifts;
yet all in one body and members one
of " But now
another.
hath God set the mem-bers
every one of them in the body,
as it hath pleased him" every one
to his place; " And the eye cannot
say unto the hand, I have no need of
thee; nor amain, the head to the
feet, I have no need of you. Nay,
J